Disentangling complex parasite interactions: Protection against cerebral malaria by one helminth species is jeopardized by co-infection with another.

Multi-species interactions can often have non-intuitive consequences. However, the study of parasite interactions has rarely gone beyond the effects of pairwise combinations of species, and the outcomes of multi-parasite interactions are poorly understood. We investigated the effects of co-infection...

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Main Authors: Jessica L Abbate, Vanessa O Ezenwa, Jean-François Guégan, Marc Choisy, Mathieu Nacher, Benjamin Roche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5963812?pdf=render